Well, this has been a rather lengthy road to completion but the transmission is basically complete. The car was dropped off by SSP last month to Gintani who should have the motor in by the end of this week. The problem is SSP mounted their trans cooler in the location the heat exchanger for the supercharger needs to go so SSP will need to come to Gintani's facility to re-run their lines as the cooler will need to go in a different location. What took so long for this update? Well, we have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for SSP to send us details on the Viton seals that required 3 redesigns but never received the information on why these seals are superior to the stock units.

So, I decided to do my own research and here is what I came up with. These are the stock BMW seals used in the DCT. What is wrong with them exactly? We do not know other than they apparently are not up to the task:

Here are the Viton seals which delayed the project by 3 months. Viton is a synthetic rubber used for seals, O-rings, things of that sort. Viton was likely used as it is less susceptible to decay and already used in BMW applications such as in VANOS. Viton has much higher temperature and chemical resistance characteristics than the stock seals. Here is what they look like:

This is the DCT cooler that was mounted by SSP up front. This needs to be moved somewhere else as the supercharger heat exchanger will need to go there. This means SSP will need to come out and run their lines again checking all their fluids and so forth before tuning can take place:

This is the final assembly. So, the transmission is built but it took about a year longer than estimated. I believe I was as patient as possible and hopefully this will all be wrapped up in December with a built motor, built transmission, a YSI, and a ton of horsepower.

yes Please bro that'll be great. I know how u feel but me as an outsider im just tired of hearing and not seeing this car any more. The updates started off well but then died a boring delayed death. God willing all this gets sorted out soon.

yes Please bro that'll be great. I know how u feel but me as an outsider im just tired of hearing and not seeing this car any more. The updates started off well but then died a boring delayed death. God willing all this gets sorted out soon.

Well I had pictures sent to me and I did the updates diligently.

I'm just updating with text now as the trans build is done and don't have photos sent to me. I'll get you some pics to support my text.

I'm not BS'ing anyone here, the pan doesn't fit and I'm missing lines and fittings from SSP which I'm going to billed for. Makes me wonder what my car was sitting there for so long for.

Damn just when you think things can't get anymore absurd they do! If they couldn't get a simple pan to fit I'd be very worried about the state of your dct. What a crappy company SSP has turned out to be.

Damn just when you think things can't get anymore absurd they do! If they couldn't get a simple pan to fit I'd be very worried about the state of your dct. What a crappy company SSP has turned out to be.

I'm not going that far I just really don't understand the pan issue and the missing parts.